Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management Degree Apprentice

Summary

Are you ready to gain hands-on experience while earning a salary and studying for a fully funded degree? We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Apprentice Quantity Surveyor, where you’ll work alongside industry experts, develop essential skills, and build a rewarding career in construction.

Wage

£21,500 a year

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Training course

Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday to Friday 07:30 - 17:30 with half an hour unpaid lunch break.

47 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Thursday 4 September 2025

Duration

5 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Maintaining of a high level of customer focus in all dealings with our clients and the project team
Building positive relationships with colleagues, key stakeholders and clients
Build trusting relationships based on open communication and mutual respect
Demonstrate appropriate passion, energy and enthusiasm to succeed
Working closely with senior and project quantity surveyors and other project delivery staff
Ensuring timely applications for payment, collection of cash and monitoring debtors
Monitoring and challenge of project costs and comparison with allowances
Producing and assisting with robust and thorough project forecasts
Undertaking and assisting with monthly project cost/value reporting and presenting commercial performance to senior quantity surveyors
Dealing with project change management and pricing of variations
Effective supply chain procurement, management and administration
Monitoring and ensuring best practice commercial site functions including appropriate record keeping and reporting regimes
Assist with and utilise client software systems to manage and run all elements of live schemes
Assist wider members of the management team and actively contribute in the population of scheme programmes

Where you’ll work

Envolve Infrastructure
Unit B
St Brendans Court
Bristol
BS11 9FB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

Your training course

Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.

Your training plan

Chartered Surveyor (degree) Level 6.

Time will be split between one day per week at the university and 4 days working within the business across sites in South West England.

Once recruited into the business, you will be part of a wider cohort of Degree Apprentices from across the whole Renew Group. As a member of this cohort you will be provided with a set of core skills and competencies which translate across all Group businesses. You will also benefit from being able to network with all of your cohort members, building breadth into your development experience.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C/4)
Maths (grade C/4)

A Level in:

Any (grade 112 Points)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Analytical skills
Team working

About this company

We build, maintain, and renew the infrastructures that keep our country running, and have done since 1984. Initially specialising in deep clean and wastewater pipelines, our expertise and collaborative approach organically developed the business into a strategic partner of choice, specialising in: Heavy civil engineering Clean & wastewater treatment Clean water pipelines Wastewater pipelines Renovation Trenchless technology Dam safety Reactive/emergency ‘on call’ services Highways Rail Power

https://envolve-infrastructure.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Private Medical Insurance Business Mileage Reimbursed 4 x Death in Service Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

After this apprenticeship

Successful completion of the End Point Assessment of this apprenticeship shows you satisfy the requirements for chartered membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). You'll achieve a BSc(Hons) Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management degree.

At this stage, you'll have the knowledge, skills and behaviours to work competently as a Chartered Surveyor. You'll be able to apply your new expertise and skills directly to your workplace, taking you to the next stage of your professional career.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ENVOLVE INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Catherine Turnbull

catherine.turnbull@envolve-infrastructure.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314634.

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Closes on Saturday 31 May 2025

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